A baseball fan jumps over a bonfire outside AT&T Park after the San Francisco Giants defeated the Detroit Tigers to win the World Series.

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A Thai man falls off of a buffalo during an annual water buffalo race in Chonburi Province south of Bangkok.

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A soap bubble made by a man who performs for money in the street floats in Madrid.

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U.S. soldiers of B Troop, 1st squadron of 4th US Cavalry Regiment, fire a 120 mm mortar shell during an exercise at COP (Combat outpost) in Afghanistan.

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A boy plants a wooden cross bearing a poppy in a memorial field at Saltwell Park in Gateshead, north-east England, ahead of Remembrance Day.

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A performer stands in a streetlight shower as part of an installation to celebrate the city’s 775th anniversary in Berlin’s Nikolai Quarter.

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Serena Williams celebrates after winning the final of the WTA Championships tennis tournament against Maria Sharapova in Istanbul.

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A Ukrainian woman casts her ballot in the village of Prybirs during national parliamentary elections.

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DJ Skrillex performs during the 2012 Voodoo Experience at City Park in New Orleans.

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Niklas Ajo of Finland crashes during the Moto3 class at the Australian MotoGP in Phillip Island, Australia.

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A woman snaps a shot of the sun shining over the Brooklyn Bridge from the South Street Seaport as morning breaks following the devastating landfall of Hurricane Sandy.

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Afghan boxer Hamid Rahimi celebrates after defeating Said Mbelwa of Tanzania in their WBO Intercontinental middleweight championship fight in Kabul. It was the first professional fight to be held in Afghanistan.

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Dutch Prince Constantijn (left) leads the ceremonial opening of the Rijksstudio, the digital archive of the museum in Amsterdam.

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A model dons a creation by Joao Pimenta on a littered catwalk at Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Brazil.

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Anti-airport protesters — one seemingly pegged with teargas grenades — clash with French riot police during an evacuation on the land that will become the new airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes.

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Sixteen-month-old Ryleigh is a sad little elephant. Mom Brandy Mickey tries to cheer her up at a mothers’ support group meeting in St. Petersburg, Fla.

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Refugees collect water at a camp outside Sittwe, Myanmar, for Muslims displaced by violence earlier this year. The UN claims 22,587 people have been in disputes between Muslim Rohingyas and Buddhist Rakhines.

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Students watch as US Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps gives a lesson while visiting new Olympic facilities in Rio de Janeiro.

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Mitt Romney helps collect donations during a storm relief event in Kettering — a town in hotly contested Ohio.

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A rebel sniper takes aim at a Syrian army position from a residential building in Aleppo, Syria.

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An intact section of the Belmar boardwalk sits askew amid the destruction at the New Jersey shore after Hurricane Sandy.

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Russian opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov speaks to supporters at a rally in Moscow to show support to jailed protestors.

Artist Tomoteru Saito of Japan works on a circus-themed project for the Sarasota, Fla., Chalk Festival

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Workers continue the slow demolition of Haiti’s National Palace, which was destroyed in the earthquake that leveled the island nearly three years ago.

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In Cali, Colombia, a woman cries over the coffin of a relative — one of six police killed during an attack by FARC guerrillas.

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The Nets practice at their new Brooklyn home. The team was notified during the workout that Thursday’s opener against the Knicks has been postponed in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

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Police in St. Petersburg, Russia, detain an opposition activist. Groups opposing the ruling party have been gathering monthly in support of their right of assembly, with most of the rallies ending up banned or dispersed by cops.

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A trio of Indian schoolgirls catch a ride to class on the back of a bicycle rickshaw in New Delhi, India.

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Seen from the 16th floor of NASA’s vehicle-assebly building, Space Shuttle Atlantis awaits transport to its new home at the Kennedy Space Center visitors complex in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

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Visitors peer off the newly opened viewing point nearly 2000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean in Cabo Girao, on the Portuguese island of Madeira.